Courtmartial proceeding. She was working as a nurse in South Carolina and the Court Transcript allows us to hear her in her own words. After the war, she received the pension as a widow of a union veteran, nelson davis who had served as a private in the 8 United States colored infantry. Years after she died, tubman petitioned congress for additional benefits for her own service outlined in her affidavit as nurse and cook in hospitals and commander of several men, eight or nine, as scouts dpurg the late war. Congress received numerous documents and letters supporting tubmans claim and they, along with her affidavit are here in the records of the niets house of representatives. Tubmans pentagon was increased to 20 for her service as a nurse. Tonight, a distinguished panel will discus the life enlegacy of Harriet Tubman and ongoing presentation efforts of her birthplace. Ms. Ross is feeling in for robert f. Parker listed in our program but unable to be with. Dr. Jones is the University Ar
Probably have have had friends who have died doing that. To me, it goes against everything in the american ethos not to be doing that. Theres a lot of unanswered questions, were still getting information now that had to be pulled out through subpoena. We dont know where the president was, what hillary was doing. You know everything what they were doing during the bin laden raid, but you dont know any of this stuff, and then, of course, you have the coverup, and it really goes in with my book for personal political gain. They wanted to show that libya was pacified because libya was their baby right . That was their intervention under the guise of the duty to protect, to stop gadhafi from killing his people. I would submit to you many more people were killed after they destabilized it. Genocide genocide of christians. Isis has a Radio Station a tv station in libya right now. Its a disaster. So before, during and after, tubs of failures tons of failures. And if Hillary Clinton decides to
Small groups, families, large communities especially in the small swamp all over the south. In sheer numbers you know what to me is unique in that place in the resistance story is that they were unique in many ways. And even less underground. Also they added a special kind of a freedom. They raised their food and nobody else was. When they created a mentality to life in the white hegemony. When somebody would run away to the south which was two cities or when people would run away to the north to canada or for free blacks they all lived under the control segregated and discriminated against and there were things that they were not allowed to do. If only the maroons were and they created that alternative to life and the slavery south and in the free north. And what i conceive of that is also the fact that you know these ideals of voluntary separation, this is something that exists within the Africanamerican Community and you find that actually in many different forms whether its cultura
Behalf of the center and the new york office i would like to welcome you all here for what i think is a momentous and landmark event for us, an evening honoring the launch of david brion daviss new book. I have a couple of acknowledgments and a brief introduction and then we will start the program an alternate over to the speaker. I would like to begin first of all but sending my thanks to my colleague and friend dr. Bragman who is the person who arranged or this event that brought dr. Davis in the center together i would also like to thank michelle from the publishers of the book. She is the gilda lerman institute for the help of operation in arranging this evening. I also would like to very much welcome and recognize alan and francis members of the board of trustees who have taken their time to come here this evening as well. Thank you for that. A few brief words of introduction. One of the reasons i was so glad and jumped jump at this opportunity was because this work and the work o
Communities was corn as well as vegetables like squash and peas. Growing rice requires a kind of hydraulic system with canals and guides and gates and its probably not something maroons would have been in a position to construct. They were small plots. That was one of the things also. They were rather small so again when you grow rice it has to be even more extended. The final question. I havent read your work but im looking forward to it. I have a question. In relationship to the maroons looking at louisiana want to focus on that before the Louisiana Purchase and being in haiti there was a lot of transfer between slaves from haiti and louisiana to this through the French Connection and also being that in 1793 the first refugee crisis in america when the french planters came to louisiana and their words a lot of interconnections and in haiti there is a Large Population of maroons. So being there would you think that is also something that could have led to the spread of the marans . Im